"The water gets very polluted, the air in the area gets polluted and in New South Wales and Queensland people have reported very serious health effects."

Despite no moves by the government to lift the moratorium, Ms Blair says she is concerned by the allocation of coal seam gas exploration in Victoria's Western District.

"When people issue licenses doesn't that mean that the government (is) seriously letting this go ahead, otherwise they wouldn't let the licenses go ahead would they?"

Ms Blair says members of the Southwest community are strongly against hydraulic fracturing.

"I haven't met a single person who wants gas from this dirty, extractive method."

"There's no way you can get the pollutants out once they pollute the water supplies under the ground and farmers know this because they get their water from underground aquifers and so does the City of Warrnambool."

South Australian company Beach Energy has a permit to carry out seismic surveys near Panmure, Brucknell and Garvoc.

Ms Blair says this type of exploration can be linked to fracking.

"I think this is the sort of exploration that you do when you don't want people to think that you're looking for unconventional gas."

"So if they go down and they find shale then they're going to be looking for gas, and the other thing is they can go down as much as two kilometres then they can drill sideways, and they can still do fracking."